A common problem for companies is under-valuing key employees. Performance reviews is one technique for addressing the problem.

People you report to are supposed to make your value known to stakeholders...

Manager vs. leader - that's a useful comparison.

In a strong economy with commerce-friendly markets like what's often the case in America, perhaps adequate management and marginal leadership is enough.

I took...

Paul: That looks right! How did you find it?

Apparently the data type values themselves aren't specified in the ISO standard -...

So we're talking about how people would like to be rewarded by the company.

I briefly worked at a place that used a "cash booth." It was a noisy, inflatable phone-booth...

Paul White NZ (4/5/2010)

A history...

Hey folks. I recently built a system where users share a pool of work items and I too use a table-based queue. So I feel kind of familiar with some...

Thanks Andy and others for sharing. I think it's helpful to note that burnout can and has happened to prominent people within our industry and that it's okay to ask...

I mean, let's do Denver everybody! Wait. Where did that idea come from? It just popped in there.

We could throw a barbeque in Steve's backyard. We'll get sauces in lots...

We ought to put lots of thought and effort into making the most of the Microsoft resources that are available at the Summits - regardless of location.

Let's be sure they...

Jeff Moden (3/19/2010)I wonder how many employees would be willing to sign a contract saying that if they left the company for another job within a year or two, that...

Andy:

Yeah. It'd be tough to get buy-in from someone who doesn't seem to care about you as a person. I'll give that some thought. I haven't encountered that situation.

Your situation...

Let's look at the case where there's no budget history of training or resources - and an employee wants to change that.

Work toward an eventual compromise. People don't like to...

What - no office parkour?

We should find a way to tag the various examples of assistive code or code writing code already in SSC.com so we can have a look at what people have...

Prizes At the 2009 SSC Party were good.

At the party I got a DVD of Dune - and funny thing is that I was due for my once-a-decade viewing!

I...